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Screaming Cubes

By shigor

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio5052.78
Graphics5153.08
Mood5982.83
Fun6512.88
Overall6903.05
Humor8521.85
Innovation9372.60
Theme13372.15

Comments

heychinaski 2013-04-29 03:39

I like the stylized textures on the terrain and the ships. The AI was perhaps a little to good on the ships, they could fly and shoot a lot better than I could!

shigor 2013-04-29 13:31

So I've finally had a time to do some real testing.... postcompo is clearly in order (upgrades need some tuning, but the mothership control is a must otherwise it gets too boring too quickly).

Oh... and I see I forgot to mention that the green and white splashes on terrain are the uranium and ores.... shooting on normal terrain won't give yuo much if anything...

fervir 2013-04-29 14:25

I liked how the ship controls.
Except, it's pretty funny when you get hit by something and start spinning everywhere.
It's pretty fun to fly around

cmaster 2013-04-29 14:31

Weapon velocity seems far too low, really struggled to hit anything. You managed to achieve an awful lot in the time, well done for that.

ataxkt 2013-04-29 14:34

Really enjoyed piloting the ship, but I found doing so felt unnecessary for the actual gameplay of killing the enemies - I often lost them - being a fixed turret might have made the game easier to complete. Good thing the AI took care of most the threats ;) The flight felt nice though, got a bit of vertigo!

shigor 2013-04-29 14:49

ataxkt: well... the gameplay is not focused just on killing enemies ;) there's mining and upgrading your ship too :)

and the wining condition is to gather enough resources to fly away from the crater

tiago-ling 2013-04-29 15:05

Nice game! The player ship is a little too slow, though.

ernyz 2013-04-29 15:47

Nice, interesting game, AI is good :) but shooting and aiming was rather difficult.

edocentrique 2013-04-29 15:52

Controls are a bit hard but it's a good idea

josefnpat 2013-04-29 16:10

Interesting game!

More polish on the UI and controls might make this a very fun game!

skywilly 2013-04-29 16:47

Really fun !

toki-anholmes 2013-04-29 17:33

I enjoy your game, nice mooves are possible :)
but maybe a faster ship would have been beter

Jeremias 2013-04-29 17:53

I played this multiple times and it's really fun. The enemies don't drop that much ore, so the upgrading of the ship get's a bit lengthy. Controls are smooth, graphics fit this kind of game. Most fun part were the enemy ships which fly into you with high speed :D

sonnybone 2013-04-29 18:57

I love the sunset/dusk look of everything. The textures are nicely styled. Crashing and spinning out of control is fun, too! Interesting mix of flight sim and mining.

split82 2013-04-29 23:49

Reminds me of terminal velocity :)

shigor 2013-04-30 00:05

Split82 - yeah, halfway through I remembered it too :)

cloudiestnights 2013-04-30 00:30

A fun little spaceship sim with some interesting gameplay. I would be interested in seeing this polished up!

hamster_mk_4 2013-04-30 06:25

This game really grew on me. I started out pretty bad but eventually got the hang of dog fighting and mining.

goerp 2013-04-30 14:40

Oh no, autotracker! luckily I couldn't hear the music over the gunfire!
I like a dogfight so I had fun playing this.
I think I would like to see an upgraded version of this, but I don't know if would be checking up on you to see if you made one (so many games to play!)

bytegrove 2013-04-30 16:54

Wow, a lot of stuff in there for being made in 48 hours, nice work! Crazy AI, wanting to headbutt you all the time. :P The game felt a little too dark imo, and some visual feedback on when your bullets hit and damaged the enemies would have been nice. The upgrade system was really neat! :)

drabiter 2013-05-01 11:55

Sorry I use linux :(

pixelfan 2013-05-02 07:58

Good game i like the graphics, its some hard for take aim, but i like it!

mrvanderpants 2013-05-02 08:56

A lot of work done in two days, but the game is pretty hard.

tehskull 2013-05-03 07:03

Needs some kind of objective. I got bored kinda quickly. How this game fits the theme though is beyond me.

ltyrosine 2013-05-04 13:29

I just loved your game. Totally amazing the mother ship / exploration scheme, I had many game ideas for future in this way too. With all these upgrades your game is deep.

But I would take another day to polish it and submit to Jam instead of 48 hours because some parts of it need more work, like combat, aim, AI; Anyway here is one of the TOP games of LD26. Amazing job!

judasbenhur 2013-05-04 23:48

cool game. Reminds me off the old game: Battlezone. If you do a post compo add some auto-cargo-unloading on the mother ship. My cargohold was always full and there was no way for me unload it -_-

someguy22 2013-05-07 00:21

Really great flying mechanics but really slow and the view was really annoying!

ahm99 2013-05-10 04:14

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to play the whole thing through :( But I really I enjoyed the game. Good job :)

ashdnazg 2013-05-10 12:23

Overall it is a well made and fun game!
However, the bullets seemed a bit slow, and I'm not entirely sure where's the minimalism.

minionstudios 2013-05-12 04:40

Fun as hell! SO good

sebastian 2013-05-12 20:47

I would of liked to start off with a little more mobility and health (to compensate for my awful piloting skills!). This is a very fully featured game for just 48 hours so great work!

make-a-game 2013-05-18 11:07

I loved the way the camera movement and the ship's controls, they feel very realistic! Good job.
The audio was prety sweet too. =D

beldarak 2013-05-20 14:49

Very impressive (and for the compo !). The interface is very tedious but the game itself is fun and the physics/controls works great.